iCal to Outlook synchronization

UPDATE 21.04.2006:After fighting with Outlook calendar for the last few days, it seems I've got answers to all the questions and it's only a matter of days (and not many) before a first development version is released.

UPDATE 22.04.2006An initial version with iCal support (0.36a1) is available for first preview. iCal events are stored as meeting requests in the target folder of the feed. It lacks a lot of functionality, specifically:- Remainder- Recurring events- TimeZone support- Events update support

Further more, there are some iCal feed that I couldn't make working at all (socket couldn't connect). I'm still checking this out, it's really weird.

If so (even one way sync), this is going to be HUGE! Seriously, you're going to make a lot of people very happy, and get a lot of people installing RSS Popper for just this functionality, if you can pull this off. :-)

Josh - It would work with Google Calendar - Google exports iCal link as well as ATOM format of the calendar (at this point the iCal link doesn't work, but I'll support the ATOM if Google won't fix the iCal).

Another shameless should-have-been-fixed-in-Outlook-but-wasn't- so-let's-have-Sagi-do-it-for-free-for-us request: Better Oulook new message notification. I've found the "Show an envelope in the notification area" feature to be notoriously unreliable, as well as too easy to accidentally turn off. I'd love to have a GTalk-like notification applet instead.

I've found the "Show an envelope in the notification area" feature to be notoriously unreliable, as well as too easy to accidentally turn off. My friends at web design company too complain of the same. I'd love to have a GTalk-like notification applet instead.